The Backyard Vintner: An Enthusiast's Guide to Growing Grapes and Making Wine at Home

Anyone who ever wanted to have homemade wine and never thought they had the space or ability to make it will love this book. The Backyard Vintner is a handy guide to at-home wine making that teaches readers the tips and tricks of the trade. It is perfect for those who want to bring the feeling of wine country right into their own backyard.

The Backyard Vintner teaches readers how to start and maintain a vineyard, providing vital information on topics such as planting, trellising, and proper pruning techniques for grapes; which grape varieties will grow best in every climate or region; and the wines that can be made from each variety. Basic recipes for wines, and advice on topics such as bottling, storing, and serving wines, are also provided.

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Concord Grape Vine Five Gallon Plant by Monrovia Growers

The Concord grape emerged as the dominant cold climate American variety. Grow your own fruit by planting vine on trellis, arbor, pergola, or fence. Fast growth. Great tasting fruit yummy to eat fresh, or make into jam. Skins remove from fruit easily, so it lends itself to winemaking as well; ferment the juice and you are on the way to your own wine. Grapes are ready to harvest when they taste good. Prune to encourage next year's fruit production. Shipped in its original soil and five gallon container to ensure the best possible start when planted in yard or garden.

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Thompson Seedless Grape Vine One Gallon by Monrovia Growers

Add the beauty and pleasure of edible grapes to your landscape. Deciduous vines with bold foliage produce abundant clusters of colorful fruit each fall. They grow rapidly and will create a leafy roof over an arbor or a screen in one season. These selections are adapted to long, warm, growing seasons. Plant in full sun and enjoy. Sweet, seedless fruit in clusters. Great for fresh eating or make your own raisins!

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Choosing the Correct Grape Variety

So you decided to grow grapes then? That's great! But beware, this is where most home grape growers make their first mistake.

Choosing the correct grape variety is one of the most important decisions any home grape grower needs to take, when it comes to growing grapes. The correct variety will stand between being a successful grape grower or failure.

In the early days, choosing a grape vine variety that suits your climate, soil and growing conditions, was much harder than today. Nowadays, with more than 20 000 known grape varieties in the world, people living in climates, previously deemed unsuitable for growing grapes, can now plant varieties that was specially bred for to survive in harsh grape growing conditions.

Backyard grape growing is becoming more and more popular by the day, as people more and more strive to live healthier and look after our planet more carefully. Unfortunately, you cannot just plant any grape vine in your backyard. You will have to do some research on what varieties suits your climate, your soil and the availability of good quality water.

Another major concern for any home grape grower is a disease called Phylloxera. In the late 1800's, a phylloxera epidemic (a sap-sucking insect that feeds on the roots of the grape vine) destroyed more than two thirds of all the vineyards in Europe. The breeding of Phylloxera resistant/tollerant rootsock, prevented this disease from killing all grape vines. Planting grafted varieties is the preferred method today, because the rootstock does not interfere with the development of the grapes.

When choosing the correct grape variety, it is best to visit vineyards in your area and see what varieties are successfully grown there. Most of the time, this is a surefire way of knowing that you have chosen the right variety.

Cold damage to grape vines is another grape growing obstacle that will influence the choice of grape varieties. If cold damage is a problem where you live, choose a variety with a short growing season, so the grape vines have enough time to harden off before winter comes.

A final word of advice; if nobody grow grapes in your area, it doesn't mean grapes can't be grown there. Do some research and choose wisely. There is nothing more satisfying than enjoying grapes, grown on your own grape vine and prepared by your hands.

Good luck!

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Guide To Grape Harvesting & Wine Making Tips

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